CALL
TO WORSHIP
As
a baptized and baptizing community.
We
gather to sing, to pray, to listen, to worship
As
people who are being changed, transformed, sanctified,
We
respond to God's call, we embrace the Spirit moving in our midst.
As
a community of Christ-followers, we share the peace of Christ with
our neighbours.
PRAYER
FOR AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE
God
of life, in our baptism,
we
walk through life into death and back into life.
God
of transformation, in our baptism,
you
make us a new being, changing us, making us more than we were.
God
of grace, in our baptism,
we
are set free from the bondage of sin, we are set free to be people of
life.
Transforming,
Empowering, Gracious God
help
us live as those who are freed from sinfulness, help us put the old
ways behind us, help us live into the new people we are becoming.
...time
of silent prayer...
The
God whose love flowed over us with the waters of baptism, the Christ
who redeems and teaches us, the Ruach who fills our lungs with
the breath of life, is Gracious. God leads us through the mis-steps
of life and, grace-filled, pulls us forward, transforming and
sanctifying us as we grow into what is made true in our baptism.
This is Good News!
Thanks
be to God! Amen.
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